Diaspora and identity: perspectives on South Asian diaspora / edited by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Gabriel Sheffer

By: edited by Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar and Sheffer, GabrielMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2014Description: viii, 180 p.: ill.; 26 cmISBN: 041582544X; 9780415825443Subject(s): Asian diaspora | Identity (Philosophical concept)DDC classification: 909.04914
Contents:
Citation Information 1. Introduction: issues of identity in the South Asian diaspora Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Gabriel Sheffer 2. Diasporic subjectivity as an ethical position Dibyesh Anand 3. Another world of experience? Transnational contexts and the experiences of South Asian Americans Bandana Purkayastha 4. Revisiting the UK Muslim diasporic public sphere at a time of terror: from local (benign) invisible spaces to seditious conspiratorial spaces and the ’failure of multiculturalism’ discourse Pnina Werbner 5. ’My language, my people’: language and ethnic identity among British-bom South Asians Rusi Jaspal and Adrian Coyle 6. The Sikh gurdwara in Finland: negotiating, maintaining and transmitting immigrants’ identities Laura Hirvi 7. Communal networks and gender: placing identities among South Asians in Kenya Pascale Herzig 8. Trajectory of social mobility: Asian Indian children coming of age in New York City Rupam Saran 9. The power of technology: a qualitative analysis of how South Asian youth use technology to maintain cross-gender relationships Arshia U. Zaidi, Amanda Couture and Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale 10. Place of subcaste ijati) identity in the discourse on caste: examination of caste in the diaspora P. Pratap Kumar
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Citation Information
1. Introduction: issues of identity in the South
Asian diaspora
Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Gabriel Sheffer
2. Diasporic subjectivity as an ethical position
Dibyesh Anand
3. Another world of experience? Transnational
contexts and the experiences of South Asian Americans
Bandana Purkayastha
4. Revisiting the UK Muslim diasporic public sphere
at a time of terror: from local (benign) invisible spaces
to seditious conspiratorial spaces and the ’failure of
multiculturalism’ discourse
Pnina Werbner
5. ’My language, my people’: language and ethnic identity among British-bom South Asians
Rusi Jaspal and Adrian Coyle
6. The Sikh gurdwara in Finland: negotiating, maintaining
and transmitting immigrants’ identities
Laura Hirvi
7. Communal networks and gender: placing identities among
South Asians in Kenya
Pascale Herzig
8. Trajectory of social mobility: Asian Indian children coming
of age in New York City
Rupam Saran
9. The power of technology: a qualitative analysis of how
South Asian youth use technology to maintain cross-gender
relationships
Arshia U. Zaidi, Amanda Couture and
Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale
10. Place of subcaste ijati) identity in the discourse
on caste: examination of caste in the diaspora
P. Pratap Kumar

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